Dear Colleagues,
Now the summer holiday period is approaching it is time to remind you on our next Working Group on Co-operation between European Forecasters (WgCEF) meeting in October 2011.
We will meet at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Bergen, Norway on Friday 7th of October 2011, from 09.30 – 17.00 hours. The meeting venue address is: Allégaten 70 N-5007 Bergen.
A dinner in Bergen, kindly offered by the Norwegian Meteorological Office, is foreseen after our meeting on Friday evening. Details on this dinner event will be communicated to all of you at the end of the meeting day.
A listing with hotel facilities can be found within this link. We do remind you that you should make your own hotel booking by directly contacting the hotel of your choice !
The registration form to our WgCEF meeting can be found within this link. We do hope that all of you will be able to attend this interesting WgCEF 2011 meeting.
Please return the registration form before August 31st by E-mail to frank.kroonenberg@knmi.nl and karen.helen.doublet@met.no .
Finally we would like you to mention all discussion topics for our WgCEF meeting in Bergen, these topics were agreed upon during our 2010 meeting in Dublin:
· Round table update on new developments within the NHMSs
· Communication of the NHMSs between media and civil protection
· New developments on short term high resolution model ensembling and operational use of probabilistic values in short range forecasts
We kindly invite all of you to give presentations on the topics mentioned above during our Bergen meeting.
The round table update will be on the fly and does not need a really prepared presentation. For one of the other two topics we invite you to prepare a presentation.
Please inform us well in time, before September 15th 2011, by sending an E-mail to frank.kroonenberg@knmi.nl and will.lang@metoffice.gov.uk on which of the two topics you will give your presentation. If you want to address both topics you are welcome as well, however due to planning restrictions we could have to make choices within the final programme settings.
Hope to get all your reactions well in time and wishing you a sunny and happy Summer holiday period.
Hope to see all of you in Bergen, Norway by the 7th of October 2011 and with best regards,
Karen Helen Doublet (hosting the meeting on behalf of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute)
Vibekke Mæland (Norwegian Met. Inst.)
Frank Kroonenberg (Chair person WgCEF)
Will Lang (Vice Chair person WgCEF)
